On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:19:09PM +0200, Andre Truter wrote:
On 11/8/05, Steven T. Hatton
wrote: On Tuesday 08 November 2005 03:25 am, devosc wrote:
I dont really comment much, but I recently have had thoughts maybe related.
In my opinion I would love to see Gnome as the default desktop, that said, but not with KDE installed also. I think I read awhile back that there is a difference in the languages used to build each, c/c++ ? dunno... but in my experience Gnome had always seemed to have a better response time as a desktop, mouse movements was what I noticed...
Since I have absolutely no delays with the mouse using the KDE, I can't compare that to anyting. As for the underlying language used, yes, the GNOME is written in C, not C++. If anything, that means it will be slower if both languages are utilized to their fullest reasonable extent.
Umm.. How do you get that? It is rather the other way around. C++ apps are generally slower. Why is the Linux kernel written in C? If C++ was faster, then would that not have made sense?
The fact is actually that one cannot really say that the one language is faster than the other, becuase the speed all depends on the implementation and what you want to do.
A myth usually shown false with a little assembler.
But that speed
different may not be significant when dealing with GUIs. I do believe it is harder to write well structured applications in C.
This is generally true, although I have started Linux GUI programming with KDE and then tried GNOME. It was easier to get going in KDE/Qt because it is in C++ and the API is quite good, but once I got my head wrapped around Gtk and GNOME, the Qt/KDE stuff felt like walking with lead shoes. The Gtk API is more difficult to use in the beginning, but it is more powerful and actually simpler.
Fact is that both GNOME and KDE are good desktop solutions. The preference for the one over the other is a personal perception. I have tried KDE on many occations and I support clients that use KDE, but I can just not get used to KDE. I find it diffecult to use.
But that is because I do things differently than other people. KDE is still a good desktop, even though I don't like it.
And I ahve seen lots of people complain about dependency problems when installing GNOME. Funny thing is that I don't have any.
Install it from source. Why do you think Slackware dropped it?
I love using GNOME. I don't like mono though, I would rather opt for Python, but that is personal preference. But, just because I like GNOME, does not mean that KDE is bad. And just because Novell might decide that they would default to GNOME on thier corporate products does not mean that KDE is doomed for SUSE.
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